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Parab festival from Nov.1
KORAPUT: Parab, the State level tribal festival will be launched from the Pedapadu caves near Ampavali in Pottangi block of Koraput district on November 1 this year. This was decided at a meeting in Koraput being convened by Gadadhar Parida, district Collector, Koraput on Thursday. The panchayat level competitions and celebrations would begin from November 3 followed by the block level events which would be held at different dates suitable for the respective blocks to get completed before November 10.
The venue for holding the final events of the festival has been recommended to shift to the stadium at Koraput in place of the earlier venue at Police Parade Ground.
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Vigilance panel meet
KORAPUT: The ninth annual district level vigilance and monitoring committee meeting was held under the chairmanship of Jayaram Pangi, MP, at Koraput on Thursday. The committee had reviewed the work done under different rural development schemes being initiated by the State and Central government .
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Vigilance panel meet
KORAPUT: The ninth annual district level vigilance and monitoring committee meeting was held under the chairmanship of Jayaram Pangi, MP, at Koraput on Thursday. The committee had reviewed the work done under different rural development schemes being initiated by the State and Central government .
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Blood donation day
KORAPUT: NCC cadets observed national blood donation day by donating blood at Government High School in Koraput on Thursday. More than 700 NCC cadets of Junior and senior division from different schools and colleges of Berhampur, Bhanjanagar, Jayapatna apart from the institutions of Koraput, Rayagada, Nabarangpur and Malkangiri district are attending the 10 day-long annual training camp of 1st Orissa Infantry Independent Coy, Jeypore which had begun on Wednesday.
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Blood donation day
KORAPUT: NCC cadets observed national blood donation day by donating blood at Government High School in Koraput on Thursday. More than 700 NCC cadets of Junior and senior division from different schools and colleges of Berhampur, Bhanjanagar, Jayapatna apart from the institutions of Koraput, Rayagada, Nabarangpur and Malkangiri district are attending the 10 day-long annual training camp of 1st Orissa Infantry Independent Coy, Jeypore which had begun on Wednesday.
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World Elders Day celebrated
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KORAPUT: It was one of the happiest moments in the life for many senior citizens on Thursday when they were offered an opportunity to interact and share their thoughts with other people of their age in the town hall premises at Koraput . Hundreds of senior citizens from different villages and towns of Koraput, Rayagada, Malkangiri and Nowrangpur districts attended the meeting that was organised by Prachesta, an integral Trust for holistic development of the senior citizen on the occasion of celebrating World elders’ day at Koraput.
Rich experiences
While many senior citizens narrated their rich experiences by standing on the stage and before the new friends of their age, there were many more expressions being shared in a whispering noise, more particularly among the elderly people who had made it to reach from villages.
While this was only a beginning in the series of events to honour the elderly people of the society there was more on the cards in the future, the organisers said.
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World Elders Day celebrated
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KORAPUT: It was one of the happiest moments in the life for many senior citizens on Thursday when they were offered an opportunity to interact and share their thoughts with other people of their age in the town hall premises at Koraput . Hundreds of senior citizens from different villages and towns of Koraput, Rayagada, Malkangiri and Nowrangpur districts attended the meeting that was organised by Prachesta, an integral Trust for holistic development of the senior citizen on the occasion of celebrating World elders’ day at Koraput.
Rich experiences
While many senior citizens narrated their rich experiences by standing on the stage and before the new friends of their age, there were many more expressions being shared in a whispering noise, more particularly among the elderly people who had made it to reach from villages.
While this was only a beginning in the series of events to honour the elderly people of the society there was more on the cards in the future, the organisers said.
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Thursday, October 1, 2009
Of ornaments and tribal life
Ch. Santakar
KORAPUT: Since time immemorial, making of ornaments and adornment constitute an integral part of art and aesthetics of tribal life. The treasure of styles, designs, material and techniques that tribal traditional craft of jewellery and ornaments bear, has been inherited through ages. Even the Bonda women who are portrayed and believed to be naked by many outsiders cover their body with their traditional ornaments and costumes, Damabarudhar Sisa, a Bonda youth from Malkangiri district says. While the women collected different beads and strings from the forest for generations they got dressed up according to their capacity to cover their body to the maximum.
Collective work
Bonda women wear ‘Renga’, a small piece of cloth prepared from the wild strings being collected from the forests. While this protects the portions of the body below the waist, the finely knit necklaces of coloured beads by the Bonda women are regarded as expressions of their artistic and aesthetic quality by their society. The process of making the necklaces with the beads also needs a collective work and this in turn promotes cooperation among the tribal women to support each other in other fields of their life, Paresh Rath, a tribal researcher from Jeypore says.
Further, while the Durua male have wavy hair with a ponytail get dressed with a turban on their head, bow on their shoulder, a knife and a set of arrows in hand during the special occasions, women too love to be dressed with a number of ornaments. They wear saree covering the knee with a styled knot on the left shoulder. They dress their hair with castor oil, make a clear partition of the hair on the scalp and put a number of hair clips, hand-made wooden comb and forest flowers.
Beauty conscious Dongria Kondhs have their distinctive hairstyle. Dongria Kondh women and men make their hairstyle more beautiful by using different hair clips and silver pins. Girls decorate their heads with as many as fifty types of hair clips and their buns are set with more than ten types of hairpins. The tradition of a boy making scarf for his beloved girl and the girls making special wooden combs for their loving boys establish their immediate relationship, Mr. Rath adds. Material and natural objects derived from the forests and metals available in the markets are also used by the tribals for making their ornaments. Fruits, roots, leaves, seeds, stones of different colour, teeth, bones and nails of different animals are also used in the making of ornaments. The sophistication of ornaments and jewelleries is seen with the tribals when they use different metals like iron, copper, aluminum, silver, brass, gold in their making. Moreover, getting decorated with jewelleries !
is also a societal necessity in which the tribal youth’s fancy, fashion and imagination are felt.
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KORAPUT: Since time immemorial, making of ornaments and adornment constitute an integral part of art and aesthetics of tribal life. The treasure of styles, designs, material and techniques that tribal traditional craft of jewellery and ornaments bear, has been inherited through ages. Even the Bonda women who are portrayed and believed to be naked by many outsiders cover their body with their traditional ornaments and costumes, Damabarudhar Sisa, a Bonda youth from Malkangiri district says. While the women collected different beads and strings from the forest for generations they got dressed up according to their capacity to cover their body to the maximum.
Collective work
Bonda women wear ‘Renga’, a small piece of cloth prepared from the wild strings being collected from the forests. While this protects the portions of the body below the waist, the finely knit necklaces of coloured beads by the Bonda women are regarded as expressions of their artistic and aesthetic quality by their society. The process of making the necklaces with the beads also needs a collective work and this in turn promotes cooperation among the tribal women to support each other in other fields of their life, Paresh Rath, a tribal researcher from Jeypore says.
Further, while the Durua male have wavy hair with a ponytail get dressed with a turban on their head, bow on their shoulder, a knife and a set of arrows in hand during the special occasions, women too love to be dressed with a number of ornaments. They wear saree covering the knee with a styled knot on the left shoulder. They dress their hair with castor oil, make a clear partition of the hair on the scalp and put a number of hair clips, hand-made wooden comb and forest flowers.
Beauty conscious Dongria Kondhs have their distinctive hairstyle. Dongria Kondh women and men make their hairstyle more beautiful by using different hair clips and silver pins. Girls decorate their heads with as many as fifty types of hair clips and their buns are set with more than ten types of hairpins. The tradition of a boy making scarf for his beloved girl and the girls making special wooden combs for their loving boys establish their immediate relationship, Mr. Rath adds. Material and natural objects derived from the forests and metals available in the markets are also used by the tribals for making their ornaments. Fruits, roots, leaves, seeds, stones of different colour, teeth, bones and nails of different animals are also used in the making of ornaments. The sophistication of ornaments and jewelleries is seen with the tribals when they use different metals like iron, copper, aluminum, silver, brass, gold in their making. Moreover, getting decorated with jewelleries !
is also a societal necessity in which the tribal youth’s fancy, fashion and imagination are felt.
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Gambling fever grips towns, villages
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KORAPUT: People are seen more indoors than outdoors for the last few days in the towns and villages of Koraput district. It’s not out of any terror or the result of any conflict that has been in the news for the last many days. It is the immense attraction of gambling during the festive season that has forced people from rich to poor to get confined into the doors that many of them had ventured for the first time.
In most homes, people invite their friends and relatives over to play cards. Friends get together to indulge in games of cards. The ‘addicts’ seek legitimacy for their unusual pastime by recalling the golden moments of the past when the royal kings had played cards for their entertainment or also by referring to the celestial game of dice having been played by the lord Shiva with his companion Parvati. Others rationalise that this was just to remind oneself of the fickleness of lady luck and to inculcate a sense of balance in the pursuit of material success.
While the practice of playing cards had generated a sense of collective living during the festive seasons by inviting people from the families of one’s near and dear ones, the greatest concern has been the continuous growth of temporary gambling dens in many undisclosed destinations, be it some houses or secluded groves in the villages and towns, even not known to the family members. Invent of the mobile phones has helped the players to decide the spot at the last minute. While some players keep on changing their venues for maintaining their security from the police, most of them do not prefer to change their partners.
The stakes range from as small as a rupee to lakhs of rupees. Sometimes valuables like jewellery and vehicles are also put on stake.
While some expert gamblers make fortune from the game of cards during the season some earn their livelihood for the whole year. But a greater number of people return home losing their lifetime savings.
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Gambling fever grips towns, villages
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KORAPUT: People are seen more indoors than outdoors for the last few days in the towns and villages of Koraput district. It’s not out of any terror or the result of any conflict that has been in the news for the last many days. It is the immense attraction of gambling during the festive season that has forced people from rich to poor to get confined into the doors that many of them had ventured for the first time.
In most homes, people invite their friends and relatives over to play cards. Friends get together to indulge in games of cards. The ‘addicts’ seek legitimacy for their unusual pastime by recalling the golden moments of the past when the royal kings had played cards for their entertainment or also by referring to the celestial game of dice having been played by the lord Shiva with his companion Parvati. Others rationalise that this was just to remind oneself of the fickleness of lady luck and to inculcate a sense of balance in the pursuit of material success.
While the practice of playing cards had generated a sense of collective living during the festive seasons by inviting people from the families of one’s near and dear ones, the greatest concern has been the continuous growth of temporary gambling dens in many undisclosed destinations, be it some houses or secluded groves in the villages and towns, even not known to the family members. Invent of the mobile phones has helped the players to decide the spot at the last minute. While some players keep on changing their venues for maintaining their security from the police, most of them do not prefer to change their partners.
The stakes range from as small as a rupee to lakhs of rupees. Sometimes valuables like jewellery and vehicles are also put on stake.
While some expert gamblers make fortune from the game of cards during the season some earn their livelihood for the whole year. But a greater number of people return home losing their lifetime savings.
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Narayanpatna turning red with each passing day?
Ch. Santakar
Posters put by naxals continue to be intact as police are not removing them immediately
KORAPUT: Narayanpatna in the district is a different place now for alleged inaction by both revenue and police officials. Each place in the block appears to be in the process of turning red with each passing day. Till recently occurrence of a red banner anywhere in the block created sensation among people and was removed by the police at the shortest available time, but now things have changed. The red-coloured banners that were placed last Saturday in different parts of the block urging people to join the naxal movement were seen even after a week. Handwritten posters were put up by naxalites on roadside trees with similar messages. A vehicle carrying special police force was blasted by naxals near Paluru between Laxmipur and Narayanpatna a few months ago. The severely burnt vehicle has been lying on the roadside at the same spot all these months. Hundreds of trees were cut by the naxals to block roads in Narayanpatna and Bandhugaon blocks. While the roads were cleared from!
time to time, the logs are still lying on either side of the roads.
The number of people approaching the local police station has come down, attendance of teachers and students in schools is at its minimum and work for the officials in these blocks has got minimised over the last many months.
Further, the movement for land rights by Chasi Mulia Adivasi Sangh (CMAS), Narayanpatna, has created fresh impetus to the red movement. Members of the sangh who are called ‘Ghenua Vahini’ could be seen even on the roads, more so in groups dressed in red with pieces of red cloth tied on their forehead and carrying bow and arrow while checking the vehicles that were approaching the block every now and then . While the sangh had no links or any form of connection with the naxals, the red colour was chosen and the members were holding bow and arrow as a mark of their tribal identity, Nachika Linga, president, CMAS, Narayanpatna, said. Deep inside the block, which was guarded heavily by the members creating protection for their leaders, the sewing machines are seen working day and night in the little huts to stitch dresses for their members from the bundles of red cloth.
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Narayanpatna turning red with each passing day?
Ch. Santakar
Posters put by naxals continue to be intact as police are not removing them immediately
KORAPUT: Narayanpatna in the district is a different place now for alleged inaction by both revenue and police officials. Each place in the block appears to be in the process of turning red with each passing day. Till recently occurrence of a red banner anywhere in the block created sensation among people and was removed by the police at the shortest available time, but now things have changed. The red-coloured banners that were placed last Saturday in different parts of the block urging people to join the naxal movement were seen even after a week. Handwritten posters were put up by naxalites on roadside trees with similar messages. A vehicle carrying special police force was blasted by naxals near Paluru between Laxmipur and Narayanpatna a few months ago. The severely burnt vehicle has been lying on the roadside at the same spot all these months. Hundreds of trees were cut by the naxals to block roads in Narayanpatna and Bandhugaon blocks. While the roads were cleared from!
time to time, the logs are still lying on either side of the roads.
The number of people approaching the local police station has come down, attendance of teachers and students in schools is at its minimum and work for the officials in these blocks has got minimised over the last many months.
Further, the movement for land rights by Chasi Mulia Adivasi Sangh (CMAS), Narayanpatna, has created fresh impetus to the red movement. Members of the sangh who are called ‘Ghenua Vahini’ could be seen even on the roads, more so in groups dressed in red with pieces of red cloth tied on their forehead and carrying bow and arrow while checking the vehicles that were approaching the block every now and then . While the sangh had no links or any form of connection with the naxals, the red colour was chosen and the members were holding bow and arrow as a mark of their tribal identity, Nachika Linga, president, CMAS, Narayanpatna, said. Deep inside the block, which was guarded heavily by the members creating protection for their leaders, the sewing machines are seen working day and night in the little huts to stitch dresses for their members from the bundles of red cloth.
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